I'm involved in a project that have been using EA as the primary modelling tool. It has been used for everything, except forward code engineering and testing/maintenance. The MS Access file size (after compacting) is around 19MB. We have around 20 EA users, 5-7 were working on the model simultaneously. Entire project analysis & design documentation had been generated from EA, with some 'compelmentary' clean up. From project stats: total packages=1538, total elements=12692, total connections=11845, total diagrams=910.

The model for the project I'm working on is rapidly increasing in size, it is up to 7MB now. Closer to the end of the project, the model may occupy 15-20MB, according to our estimates. Do you have any idea whether the model size can be an issue for us? Re-phrasing the question, can MS Access cope with large files?